Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, the ultra-lush, quasi-mystical Heliane was a popular failure; in just seven years, the Zeitgeist had moved away from romanticism toward modernism. Discouraged, the composer turned to smaller pieces and adaptations of famous operettas for German director Max Reinhardt. Then, after 1933, the Jewish Korngold saw his works put on the list of entartete Musik (decadent music) and banned by the Nazis. In 1934 he followed Reinhardt to Hollywood and remained there until his death...
...ultra-right-at Harvard is overrepresented due to the media and sensational views of the ultra right," Strong says. "Newspapers engage in a feeding frenzy over the right wing...
Like the fighters in the field, the self-styled parliamentarians saw acceptance of the U.N.-mediated accord as an act of capitulation to a worldwide coalition set on annihilating the Serbian nation. "If we accept," said Radoslav Brdjanin, an ultra-nationalist leader of Banja Luka, "it means ) we fought for nothing and sacrificed the lives of our young needlessly. It is better to have an occupation by the Americans than be forced to live in a Muslim state...
...These are a number of ultra-conservative council members...tonight they restricted free speech by abusing the rules of parliamentary procedure and blatantly undermining the legitimacy of the council," he said...
Phillips slowly unpacks his preference for a prudish yet caring communitarianism in place of either liberal Establishmentarianism or ultra-capitalist market solutions. Phillips as Grumpy Old Man sees this as America's past, and it informs his prescription for the future...